Chamois-holder



(No Model.)

A. T. VERDER.

GHAMOIS HOLDER.

No. 388,800. Patented Aug. 28, 1888.

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ANDRE\V T. VENDER, OF SCHENECTADY. NFV YORK.

CHAMOlS-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,800I dated August 28, 1888.

Application tiled May fi, 1F99.

To rl/Z/ whom it may concern.-

Bc it known that I, ANnRnw T. VERDER, a resident of the city of Schenectady, in the couutyof Schenectady and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in ,lhamois-lfolders; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to imj'novcmcnts in chamois-holders; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 ofthe drawings is a frontelevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 is an end elevalion ot' the same. Fig. l is a vertical section of one end, taken on the broken line .rx in Fig. I, and showing a plurality of chamois skins secured upon the holder. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, partly in section, showing a modified form of construction. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the holding spur, taken on the broken line .fr x in Fig. Jt.

My improved device is especially designed for use by retail dealers in chamois-skins and similar articles.

Dealers are inconvenienced and annoyed by customers while selecting from a bundle of chamois-skins, whether loose or tied, the particular one desired, and the appearance of the skins is injured by excessive and rude mani pulation during the process of selection.

My improved holder consists of two or more pointed spurs, C, erected one from each end of a rod or bar, A, adapted to be forced through one edge of the skins E, as shown in Fig. 3.

The spurs are each provided with a keeper, D, supported by a ln'acket-arm, I, erected from the bar and secured thereto, as by a rivet, K, and the spur. The bracket-arms terminate in a head, a, tapped in line with the subjacent spur, and are each provided with a Serial No. 5279,?30. (No model.)

screw, D, threaded to fit the threaded aperturein the head. The stem of the screw is provided with au open cavity, J, which may be called a spur seat,77 as it is adapted to receive the point of the spurs, as shown in Fig. 3. I), are adjusted in a position above the spurs, so that the skins, one or more at a time, may be inserted between them and the spurY points and forced down upon the spurs to the position shown in Fig. 3. The screws are then readjusted to the position shown in Figs. 1 and :5, which keeps the skins froin slipping off the spurs. rlhe spurs are provided on their sides adjoining the bracket-arms with asharp or thin edge, d, and when it is desired to remove a selected ski n a slight pull will cause the sharp edge of the spur to cut through the narrow edge c of the skin and release it from the spurs. The cut through the narrow margin works no injury to the skin, and the operation is easily and quickly performed. A pack et of skins thus secured may be hung upon hooks or nails adapted to support the bar, or it may be laid upon a table or counter and the skins separately turned and examined, like the leaves of a book, without injury to the skins and with little or no inconvenience.

Any wellnknown form of keeper may be employed, and I have shown in Fig. 4 a Inedified form, in which the hollow stem F is provided with au annular llange, Il, which forms a bearing for one end of a coil-spring, S, contained within the stem-inelosing barrel the other end of the spring having its bearings upon an introverted flange on the upper end of the barrel.

\Vhile in use the springs retain the keepers in place, and it is only necessary to raise the keepers against the resilient force of the springs to introduce more skins.

My improved device is adapted to hold flexible sheets of any material, which can be easily punetured and cut by the pointed and edged spurs.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-m I. As an article of manufacture, a chamois holder consisting of a rod or bar having a 'lhc screws, manipulated by the head righb-ngular spur and keeper erected from each end7 the spurs being pointed and edged on one side, substantially es described.

2. The combination, with im bnr, A, of end spurs, G, :md bracket; arms B erected therefrom, and stems provided with spur-Seats and vertically adjnstahe in the ends of thehrueketnrms, substantially ns described.

Tn testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hnnd this lsb day of May, ISSS.

ANDREV T. VERDER.

\Vtnesses:

JAMES A. VAN VoAST, HARMAN W. VElamcla. 

